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Clovis Comet Gets Second Look
Wall Street Journal ^
| March 16, 2012
| Matt Ridley
Posted on 04/06/2012 9:21:52 AM PDT by baynut
Scientists, it's said, behave more like lawyers than philosophers. They do not so much test their theories as prosecute their cases, seeking supportive evidence and ignoring data that do not fita failing known as confirmation bias. They then accuse their opponents of doing the same thing. This is what makes debates over nature and nurture, dietary fat and climate change so polarized.
But just because the prosecutor is biased in favor of his case does not mean the defendant is innocent. Sometimes biased advocates are right. An example of this phenomenon is now being played out in geology over the controversial idea that a meteorite or comet hit the earth 12,900 years ago and cooled the climate.
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; clovis; comet; globalwarming; godsgravesglyphs; lakecuitzeo; mammoth; mammoths; mastodon; mastodons; mexico; youngerdryas
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posted on
04/06/2012 9:21:59 AM PDT
by
baynut
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/06/2012 9:34:52 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
To: SunkenCiv
To: baynut
Interesting how an ice age can be a hot topic.
To: baynut
Some Alien Theorists say..........
Well it is almost the same, isn’t it?
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posted on
04/06/2012 9:50:54 AM PDT
by
X-spurt
(Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
To: baynut
There is so much advocacy and biases in climate science, it's hard to read articles about it as strict science. I constantly find myself trying to figure out what the scientist's angle is, even if they don't have one. The whole field is a total mess.
I'll stick to astronomy and physics articles, I guess.
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posted on
04/06/2012 9:56:05 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: baynut
I’ve taken to walking back any comet or asteroid claim by roughly 3,600 year intervals to see if there is any correlation to 2012, since the whole thing is so tinfoiled on the one hand and dismissed right out of hand on the other.
This doesn’t. But, some do. So, I still have no idea if there’s any legitimate astronomical basis for the whole 12/21/12 thing.
I guess I’ll just have to wait and see, lol.
Thanks baynut. Matt Ridley also authored that book on DNA, among others.
- What killed the mammoths and other behemoths?
- Ancient Atomic Warfare - Religious texts and geological evidence
- The Pleistocene Extinction
- Supernova debris found on Earth
- Deep freeze dealt death knell to bison (Ice Age)
- Humans to Blame for Ice Age Extinctions, Study Says
- Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths?
- Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths?
- Scientist: Comets Blasted Early Americans
- Native Americans Recorded Supernova Explosion
- Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Times
- Did comet start deadly cold snap?
- Diamonds tell tale of comet that killed off the cavemen
- Catastrophic Comet Chilled and Killed Ice Age Beasts (and Clovis people)
- Oregon Researchers Involved In New Clovis-Age Impact Theory (More)
- Comet May Have Doomed Mammoths
- Ice Age Ends Smashingly: Did A Comet Blow Up Over Eastern Canada? (More) (Carolina Bays)
- Climate alarmists lose another piece of evidence
- Comet Theory Collides With Clovis Research, May Explain Disappearance of Ancient People
- NSF Press Release: Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago
- Research Team Says Extraterrestrial Impact To Blame For Ice Age Extinctions (More)
- Cosmic blast may have killed off megafauna: Scientists say early humans doomed, too
- Cosmic blast may have killed off megafauna: Scientists say early humans doomed, too
- Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago
- Site Provides Evidence For Ancient Comet Explosion (Topper - SC)
- The End of Eden: The Comet That Changed Civilization
- Great beasts peppered from space
- Did Comets Cause Ancient American Extinctions?
- Al Goodyear And The Secrets Of Ancient Americans
- The mysterious forest rings of northern Ontario
- Life Survived Catastrophic Space Rock Impact [Chesapeake Bay area]
- Research Casts New Light On History Of North America
- Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana
- First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia....
- Diamonds Rained Down During Ice Age
- Diamonds Rained Down During Ice Age ($$$)
- First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia Over Bering Strait -
- Tracking down abrupt climate changes (Rapid natural climate change 12,700 years ago)
- Mammoth Mystery: The Beasts' Final Years
- Scientists find signs of 13,000-year-old extinction event
- Scientists say comet killed off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers
- Diamonds Linked to Quick Cooling Eons Ago
- Six North American sites hold 12,900-year-old nanodiamond-rich soil
- Did a Comet Hit Earth 12,000 Years Ago?
- Mammoths wiped out by 'perfect storm?'
- Laser mapping may help solve the mystery of the Mima Mounds
- Humans to Blame for Extinction? - Not Necessarily So ...
- Did a Comet Cause a North American Die-Off around 13,000 Years Ago?
- Carolina bays gouged into the ground at a magnetic reversal
- North America comet theory questioned
- Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months
- Car-Sized Creature Whacked with Tail's Sweet Spot (until 10,000 years ago)
- Starvation 'wiped out' giant deer
- Prehistoric man, giant animal coexisted
- Extinction of Giant Mammals Changed Landscape Dramatically
- Sophisticated hunters not to blame for driving mammoths to extinction
- Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months
- Kansas scientists probe mysterious possible comet strikes on Earth
- Explosive Nearby Star Could Threaten Earth
- T Pyxidis Soon To Be A Type Ia Supernova
- The Death Star (Supernova close to Earth - could wipe us out)
- Cave reveals Southwest's abrupt climate swings during Ice Age
- Musk Ox Population Decline Due to Climate, Not Humans, Study Finds
- Hour-long hailstorm may have caused 1,000-year freeze, say scientists
- Comet trail may have caused last ice age - UPI.com
- New Study Reveals Link Between 'Climate Footprints' and Mass Mammal Extinction
- As Mammoths Died Out, Earth Chilled (mammoth burp and fart levels dropped, contributing to cooling)
- Methane Extinctions - Could this Explain the Carolina Bays?
- Fungi, Feces Show Comet Didn't Kill Ice Age Mammals?
- Answer to what ended the last ice age may be blowing in the winds, paper says
- Los Angeles oil history runs deep
- Woolly mammoth extinction 'not linked to humans'
- True causes for extinction of cave bear revealed
- Mammoth-killing space blast 'off the hook'
- No evidence for Clovis comet catastrophe, archaeologists say
- Comet Theory Comes Crashing to Earth
- Scientists reveal a first in Ice Age art
- Plasma, Solar Outbursts, and the End of the Last Ice Age
- How Mammoths Lost The Extinction Lottery
- New evidence supporting extraterrestrial impact at the start of the Younger Dryas
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posted on
04/06/2012 10:17:37 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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Thanks Theoria and martin_fierro for the pings, and baynut for the topic.
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04/06/2012 10:17:54 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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04/06/2012 10:18:52 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: baynut
Clovis Comet Gets Second LookClovis Comet.......I think I dated her once.
To: baynut
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posted on
04/06/2012 10:34:57 AM PDT
by
Bullish
To: Bullish
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posted on
04/06/2012 10:42:22 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
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posted on
04/06/2012 10:52:14 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
To: RegulatorCountry; blam
Rupp from U Chicago postulated that extinctions occurred on a regular basis and had a grad student study the problem. The thing that got my interest was a post by Blam on the Hiatus in the spread of civilization after the Sargonite Empire which lasted about 300 years.
They found a crater in Iraq that could have some impact on this hiatus but I never followed it up.
To: RegulatorCountry; blam
Rupp from U Chicago postulated that extinctions occurred on a regular basis and had a grad student study the problem. The thing that got my interest was a post by Blam on the Hiatus in the spread of civilization after the Sargonite Empire which lasted about 300 years.
They found a crater in Iraq that could have some impact on this hiatus but I never followed it up.
To: Little Bill
Periodicity and near extinction level events would make sense of a lot of legend and certain religious prophecies.
To: baynut
Clovis comet gets a second look??? This idea has had numerous
LOOKS since its introduction some seven or eight years ago. Seems the arguments wax and wane but nothing ever gets settled. Maybe it has something to do with job security???
It looks like Kennett has taken up the cause started by Firestone, Topping, et al and I gather he's a good hand to have in the fray. BTW, I notice the author has apparently changed the title of his article; in now reads: "A Global-Cooling Theory Gets a Second Chance". Might be something else tomorrow. ;^)
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posted on
04/07/2012 11:23:04 PM PDT
by
ForGod'sSake
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